Marula

Are you talking the trailer license or the class 1 & 2?

I'd say class 1 and 2 from experience, the split gear box and procedure would baffle you without training. If you touch a curb anywhere you're done, if you do your test in a small town or village it's bloody difficult with training, without, no chance.

I have all those licences and you right, I did **** my pants! Nearly had to remortgage 😉

Sounds like a decent place to work, I had a job and knock policy if it was a large specimen. Nothing worse than finishing a three day job at 12 on the 3rd day and the starting another large job immediately, everyone just drags their feet.

Oh lord! Give me strength......

To be fair the fallout of not stopping is a steep fine. We've left many jobs to return later due to nesting birds, that's the law.

It may require further investigation however Eucs are high in allelopathic/phenol compounds, if the mulch is fresh and hasn't been "rinsed" by the rain in a different location then it'll be flushing those compounds into the soil around the base of the tree.

I was forced to changed careers from the forces, which was supposed to be until retirement, to an office job. It was terrible, one minute I was rapid deploying from the back of a chinook the next calling people and trying to sell something that was as useful as dog ****! I did the 10 week course through merrist wood many a moon ago and I can safely say it was a decision I don't look back on in regret, not ever. From there I've studied further which obviously is what needs to be done as climbing is for the young or the young at heart, depending on what you enjoy. Don't worry about the saws, that'll become second nature and you'll know what to do and what not to do fairly quickly. If you have an opportunity I'd say study an Arb qualification, if you aren't in your early 20's then I'd get the backup plan in place now, by mid 30's climbing isn't as fun anymore and you'll need something where your practical knowledge can be translated into another form of money making expertise. 👍🏼good luck, outside is always better than inside.

TAKE MY MONEY!! Really nice work there.

Eastern Europe is very low wage, its more the basic experience in massive populars with great scenery, gorgeous woman and cheap beer than anything else. Australia and new Zealand are between 25 to 35 Dollars an hour, this seems good on the surface but the cost of living in oz is very expensive and even more so in New Zealand. However the lifestyle more than covers getting ragged around 1 million foot dead eucs on hillsides 👍🏼😬. The uk is expensive, food is cheap but housing, fuel, vehicle taxes and insurances are all expensive in relation to what you make. Wages can be good as an independent but it depends on how populated the area is with "paving specialists", I got sick of being shown a badly printed flyer with the comments, "why are you charging me £1200 for that tree when these professionals only want £200? They have ladders and everything!" I've always been interested to know how they pay in Canada and the US, I'd love to have a bash out there.

It's a wind-up mate.

😂 totally worth it! Made me smile, you got all the scenarios into a small patagraph👍🏼 National treasure tree: check Significant age for rage: check Unjustified reason to fell: check Attack on batman himself: check Target destruction: check Nosey neighbour: check What more could you want from episode of That Arb Life.....

This doesn't look real to me, are you trolling an Arb forum? 😂 Go get em tiger.....

Yhea, since coming off the tools I actually have energy and mainly time for a lot more of me time.

Keep the tools, they worth more kept than resold, you never know, summer may land and you think to yourself, why be in a vehicle all day when I could be outside doing a bit.

Judging by the "shape", shall we say, of most delivery drivers I see, I'd say it's probably easier than arb work. No offence Stewie, You know what I mean....

Sorry, I thought you were asking as to possibly why the TO went and TPO'd them. As for their incompetence with regard to paperwork or dealing with requests, head in hands I'm afraid.

The reason may be as simple as they are good healthy ash, I've protected a good old healthy ash from being felled in a similar way. I felt we don't know where we'll be in 50 years from now regarding ash so I was going to do my bit to retain a tree from someone who wasn't going to live that long.

😂yes! Very true mate, very true! I'd have to say, I did love the ego stroking of having an audience taking photos when doing a big job with a crane in public, made me feel like a poorer, dirtier, less technologically advanced version of iron man.....

I'd agree with that, when you green you keep your mouth shut and learn all you can, that's what I did and I had fantastic mentors to learn from. I no longer climb, I do surveys and I own a separate company in another profession. When I say undervalued, I don't mean by tree work standards, I mean by professional standards. A well rounded arborist with loads of experience in various testing scenarios (removing a 20ft conifer doesn't count) plus kit is a valuable asset in my mind, yet an estate agent who classifies a stapler "kit" can earn three or four times that of what a climber earns a year. Maybe I'm just biased toward our profession.

🤔 What do mean?

I do do my own thing, I own more than one company across more than one discipline. I love tree work though especially the science side, so I suppose I wish it provided the financial reward my other company provides. I am of the strain of thought though that feels us tree gamers are an undervalued crowd.

Pay versus what employers want for that pay in the uk is terrible, I'd agree. I can't count how many times I'd come to the end of a day/job and the employer would chuck in a "while you there" little extra!!!😡 "I know it's 5:30pm but could you quickly remove that small tree? or climb that ivy covered scraggly half dead thing over the house to remove that limb, you know, the one that's level with the only anchor point!" Why not just tell me it's there at the beginning of the day, or mention there's more than this to do?!

Done this a few times with stems on banks, very effective. 👍🏼

Went through the same thing👍🏼